intend
/ɪnˈtɛnd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
verb
To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
verb
To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
Example Sentences
- "He intends to go to university."
- "They evidently intended some mischief."
- "After I've finished my contract I never intend to teach teenagers again."
- "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."
- "She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill."
- "In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way."
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Inflected Forms
intends (present, singular)
intending (participle, present)
intended (participle, past)
intended (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
intended (first person, past)
intendest (archaic, present)
intended (past, second person)
intendedst (archaic, past)
intendeth (archaic, present)
intended (past, singular)